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DIRECTOR
Aaron De Groft, Ph.D.
CURATOR OF EDUCATION & NEW MEDIA
Amy Gorman, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
Cindy Lucas
SPECIAL PROJECTS ADMINISTRATOR
Ursula McLaughlin-Miller
REGISTRAR
Melissa Parris
MEMBERSHIP MANAGER
Bronwen Watts
FACILITIES & EXHIBITIONS
MANAGER
Kevin Gilliam
DIRECTOR’S FELLOW
Christina Carroll
EDUCATION SPECIALIST/
GRADUATE ASSISTANT
Elayne Russell
ASSISTANT TO DEVELOPMENT,
EDUCATION, & NEW MEDIA
Rusty Meadows
CURATORIAL FELLOW
Katja Saldana
DIRECTOR OF SECURITY
Charles Pfenning
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SECURITY
Larry Wright
SECURITY
Ernest Wright
MUSEUM SHOP MANAGER
Mary Grace Shore
HOURS
Tuesday – Friday
10 AM – 5 PM
Saturday – Sunday
12 noon – 4 PM
Closed Monday
M - F, 8 AM – 5 PM
Closed on most national holidays
ADMISSION
Regular Admission: $5.00
Special Exhibitions Additional: $5.00 - $10.00
Free to Members, W&M College
Students, Faculty and Staff, and
Children under Twelve.
Admission may change during
special exhibitions.
For more information
please visit our website,
www.wm.edu/muscarelle
or call 757.221.2700.
THE MUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART
COVER:Michelangelo BuonarrotiStudio per un Cristo risortoBlack pencil and ink on paperCourtesy of Archivio Buonarroti© 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy
Michelangelo BuonarrotiStudio di nudaRed pencil and ink on paperCourtesy of Archivio Buonarroti© 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy
THIS PAGE:Michelangelo BuonarrotiBasi di pilastriRed pencil on paperCourtesy of Casa Buonarroti© 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy
BACK:Michelangelo BuonarrotiStudio di nudo maschileRed pencil on paperCourtesy of Archivio Buonarroti© 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy
MICHELANGELOAnatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the MasterFebruary 6, 2010 throughApril 11, 2010
THE MEDIATED IMAGETechniques of Printmaking February 6, 2010 throughApril 11, 2010
POPULAR RELIGIONArt of Private Devotion in Colonial Mexico & PeruComing in April
UNBEARABLE BEAUTYPhotographs by Eugene Smith April 24, 2010 throughJune 20, 2010
I read an article recently about
museums moving locations and
re-designing buildings in an
effort to reconnect with their
core institutional values. Since
our re-branding in November
2008, I have been thinking a
lot about our core values as a
museum, and more importantly
how we are doing at achieving
them. Due to the support of
the Museum family, I can say
we have never as an institution
done a better job at attaining
our core values.
One of our primary core values is curatorial excellence. There are few times in a director’s life when he can sit back and say “wow” at an exhibition schedule – this year I certainly have. Without a doubt, for a museum of our size, our exhibition schedule is unparalleled. Following the modern master Andy Warhol, the Museum is the only U.S. venue for works of the Old Master and one of the greatest artists in the history of the world, Michelangelo Buonarroti. The exhibition features drawings, archival pages, and engravings that are rarely seen and infrequently loaned from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master depicts and illustrates Michelangelo’s concept and philosophy that architecture was anatomical like it has never been done before. It will be on view from February 6, 2010 through April 11, 2010. The Museum and College has produced a catalogue of the exhibition as part of its scholarly mission.
Another of our primary core values is to integrate with faculty, staff and students of The College. This past fall we hosted an exhibition of works by thirteen of our Studio Art faculty and featured lectures by several artists in the exhibition. This spring a member of the Studio Art faculty, Elizabeth Mead, will open an exhibition of unbearably beautiful photographs showing the effects of mercury poisioning. This collaboration, a multi-departmental, global inquiry group at The College opens April 24, corresponding with Earth Day and the William & Mary International Symposium on Mercury Poisoning. This is but one way, albeit a major way, to fully integrate the Muscarelle into the life and liberal arts mission of The College. A third of our core values is using the Museum
as a laboratory for learning. As many of you know one of our student volunteers, Rusty Meadows, co-curated the Andy Warhol exhibition as part of his senior honors thesis. As part of the Warhol exhibition the Museum encouraged Rusty and our Director’s Fellow, Christina Carroll, to present lectures on topics of their interest to the community. This spring the Herman Graphic Arts Study Room will be used for several student-curated shows including an exhibition highlighting the history of printmaking. Curating is not all our students do, however. If you were to walk into the DEN as our students call it (Development, Education, and New Media Department), on any given day you would see students engaged in projects including exhibition design, developing marketing and public relations plans, and collection research. Day in and day out our professional staff is engaging and fostering an environment for the Museum to serve as a laboratory for learning.
Our continuing ability to strive toward our core values is due in large part to you. Thank you for your continuing generosity and support of the Muscarelle Museum of Art. I look forward to seeing you all this spring.
Best,
Aaron H. De Groft, Ph.D., W&M ’88Director
Greetings,
SPRING/SUMMER
10LETTER
FROM THE
DIRECTOR
Best known for his artistic achievements in painting, sculpture and architecture, Michelangelo was also a poet. There are more than 300 of his poems still in existence.
Michelangelo’s full name is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buornarroti Simoni. He was born in Caprese, Italy on March 6, 1475 to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri, he was one of five brothers.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
INTERIM CHAIRMAN
Ray C. Stoner
VICE CHAIR
Theresa Thompson
SECRETARY
Constance W. Desaulniers
Anne H. Barr
Polly S. Bartlett
David M. Brashear
Laura Burrows
Kathleen D. Durdin
Sarah O. Gunn
Susan Hillard
George E. Howell
Jane Kaplan
Michael W. Koch
Gordan S. Kray
Jill M. Lord
Janet M. Osborn
Patrisia B. Owens
Pamela G. Palmore
Kathleen M. Ring
Christine C. Rowland
Anna C. Sim
Dr. John T. Spike
Jane Y. Spurling
Carlton A. Stockton
H.C. Thaxton, Jr.
N. Christian Vinyard
Dixie D. Wolf
LETTER
FROM THE
CHAIRMAN
Dear Members and Supporters of the Museum,
Ten years ago I was asked to be an inaugural member
of the Board of Directors of the Muscarelle Museum of
Art. Ten years later I can hardly believe the success
the Museum has achieved. Poised for greatness, the
Museum now has a steady influx of willing docents,
Friends, and student volunteers; an unmatched
exhibition schedule; and a talented professional staff
led by a director that literally brought the Museum out of the trenches. With these tools I know the Museum is only going to continue to improve over the upcoming years.
Over the past year the Museum engaged in a self-study for its re-accreditation with the American Association of Museums. The self-study period provided an opportunity for the Museum staff to evaluate the core values and practices of the Muscarelle. During the summer of 2010, a peer group of museum
professionals will visit the Museum to conclude the re-accreditation process. We anxiously look forward to showing our guests what the Muscarelle has achieved in the last ten years.
For those of you unfamiliar with the accreditation history of the Museum, the Muscarelle Museum of Art was accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM) in 1988, and received subsequent accreditation in 2000. The Museum was the first university museum in the Commonwealth of Virginia to
be accredited by the AAM. Fewer than five percent of museums in the U.S. are accredited. I have no doubt the Muscarelle will receive its third accreditation award this year. As an extension of our continuing self-study and evaluation, the 2008/09 Progress Report of the Museum is provided at the back of this bulletin. Despite a troubled economy, membership, attendance, and financial support all remained steady.
On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, thank you for continued support that made 2009 another great year for the Museum. We look forward to working with you all to make 2010 an even better year for the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Sincerely,
Ray C. Stoner, Esq., W&M J.D. ’71 Interim Chairman, Board of DirectorsMuscarelle Museum of Art
One of the most famous artists in the history of the world, Michelangelo Buonarroti is known for his iconic works such as the Sistine Chapel and the sculpture David. Without a doubt, however, the rare
and infrequently seen drawings of this Renaissance artist are among the most treasured in the world.
THIS PAGE:Michelangelo BuonarrotiSchizzi di blocchi di marmo con annotazioni autografe, 1517Ink and red pencil on paperCourtesy of Casa Buonarroti© 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy
LEFT PAGE:Michelangelo BuonarrotiColmn Base© 2010 Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy
Michelangelo BuonarrotiHead of a Shouting ManAshmolean Museum, Oxford, England
ON VIEW AT MUSCARELLE
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Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists
of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on
loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo
drawings and ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti
in Florence, Italy. Combined with Old Master
drawings from the collection of the Museum,
the exhibition depicts and illustrates in a way
never done before Michelangelo’s concept and
philosophy that architecture was anatomical.
The exhibition explores new research in
Michelangelo architectural studies, includes
digital reconstructions of buildings never before
believed to be influenced by Michelangelo, and
features lectures by world-renowned scholars on
Michelangelo.
The Muscarelle Museum of Art will be the only U.S.
venue for Michelangelo’s treasured drawings on
view from February 6, 2010 to April 11, 2010.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) had a vision
of architecture rooted in the understanding of
the human body, and his theory of anatomy was
articulated in the study and design of architecture.
While most Renaissance architects treated the
human body as analogy, Michelangelo, a supreme
master of the human form, took the comparison
further. He viewed anatomy—muscles, nerves, and
human proportions—as metaphors for the active
elements of architecture. A master draftsman, his
design principles were articulated in remarkable
sketches. Michelangelo’s emphasis on the body
in his vision and theory of architecture was
unprecedented. He saw it all intertwined as life.
Scholars have always questioned whether or not
Michelangelo studied anatomy. He did in several
ways. He conducted studies of classical antiquities
and the many human forms available to him in
ancient sculptures. More importantly, when he
was sixteen years old and a guest at the convent
church of Santo Spirito on the south-side of the
Arno River in Florence, he dissected corpses from
the convent hospital. Besides making drawings of
dissections, Michelangelo also studied and drew
from the human model. From a very young and
influential age, Michelangelo actively developed
his concept of architecture as anatomy and vice
versa.
This exhibition is curated and the catalogue
produced by the Muscarelle Museum of Art. The
show is organized in Italy by Contemporanea
Progetti from the generous loans of the works
of art from the Fondazione Casa Buonarroti in
Florence upon the authority of the Soprintendenza
per i Beni Artistici e Storici in Florence, Italy, and
the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali of
Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master by Aaron De Groft, Director
John T. Spike | Palazzo Torrigiani | Florence, Italy | Photograph by James O’Mara | 2007
Highly Praised Author of Numerous Studies of Renaissance Artists, Dr. John T. Spike writes first comprehensive study of Michelangelo’s life and art in more than a century.
upcoming PUBLICATION
Michelangelo Buonarroti | Study for the ‘Last Judgement’ | Casa Buonarroti | Florence, Italy
In the long-awaited, authoritative
reinterpretation of the early life
and career of Michelangelo, Young
Michelangelo: The Path to the
Sistine, art historian Dr. John T.
Spike explores Michelangelo’s early
life from ages 2 to 29, probing the
thinking, evolution, and yearnings
of a young man convinced of his
own exceptional talent, who, even
from the earliest age, never lacked
awareness of his superiority.
Spike explores unrevealed aspects of
Michelangelo’s complex personality through lively
and informed examinations of the Pietà, the David,
the struggle with Leonardo da Vinci for artistic
mastery, and his troubled relationship with Julius
II, who commissioned his ill-fated tomb from the
fiery Florentine master.
Spike probes Michelangelo’s involvement in the
most troubling controversies of his age and re-
creates Michelangelo’s cities, Florence and Rome,
animating their daily life with sketches of Lorenzo
the Magnificent, Leonardo, Savonarola, Raphael,
Julius II, and Machiavelli—for Michelangelo
knew them all. Over the long arc of his artistic
development, 1475 to 1505, Michelangelo was an
eyewitness to the bonfires of the vanities, the
Rome of the Borgias, the siege of Florence, and the
Inquisition’s burning of heretics at the stake.
Young Michelangelo explores Michelangelo’s
apprenticeship, at the age of twelve, to
Ghirlandaio, one of the leading Florentine
painters; the sculpture school in the Medici
garden of San Marco; and the humanist court of
Lorenzo the Magnificent. He made his first mark
with a freestanding marble of Bacchus (1496–98,
Bargello, Florence) that was mistaken by his
contemporaries as a work of classical statuary.
The Pietà (1498–1500, still in its original place
in Saint Peter’s Basilica) would have assured the
young man’s fame had he made nothing else.
With the David (1504), symbol of his beloved
city’s independence, Michelangelo surpassed
himself. Spike’s biography covers the full range
of Michelangelo’s younger years, surveys the
overwhelming influence that his career had upon
contemporaries and followers, and offers an
absorbing account of his charismatic influence on
painting, sculpture, architecture, sex, and psyche
in the centuries after his death.
Drawing from extensive contemporary records,
including the two Lives of Condivi and Vasari
and Michelangelo’s 480 autographed letters and
poems, Spike sifts the truth from the sentimental,
self-serving, and spurious accretions that have
distorted our understanding of Michelangelo
in the past. Spike set the biography against
the rich background of Renaissance Italy and
deftly interweaves into his narrative accounts
of everyday life at the end of the 15th century,
including the brutal violence of Italian warfare,
the scandalous lives of the Borgias, and the
surprising origins of international banking. The
book, published by Vendome Press, is scheduled
for publication in October 2010.
Michelangelo Buonarroti | Study for the ‘Last Judgement’ | Casa Buonarroti | Florence, Italy
BECOME PART OF THEMUSCARELLE LEGACYContribute to the Exhibition Endowment Fund
The Exhibition Endowment Fund is essential to ensuring the Museum has funds necessary to host major exhibitions. An endowment is a reserve the Museum manages and invests. The capital of the endowment fund is not spent; rather a percentage of the yield is used each year, so a gift to the endowment will last forever.
Your generous support of the Museum as a member is important; however, a contribution to the Exhibition Endowment Fund will be used to pay costs associated with future exhibitions and will ensure that we continue to attract world-class exhibitions and collections such as Medici, the Uffizi, The Dutch Italianates, Deeply Superficial, and Michelangelo. Your support today will guarantee the legacy of the Museum into the future.
Please consider making a contribution to the Endowment.
Make your check payable to: The College of W&M Foundation.Note in the memo line, “Muscarelle Museum Exhibition Endowment.”
Mail to: Muscarelle Museum of ArtLamberson HallThe College of William & MaryP.O. Box 8795Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795
If you have questions or prefer to contribute by credit card, please contact the Membership Office at (757) 221-2709 or [email protected].
members’ TRIPS
National Geographic Museum andPresident Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, D.C.We advertised this trip in the Fall/Winter Bulletin and the response was so
great we decided to repeat it! Some fine tuning has been done to the itinerary and it will
be an even better trip the second time around. People who were on the waiting list for the
November trip were offered first refusal, but there are still seats available.
Corcoran Gallery of Art and Newseum, Washington, D.C.The exhibition Turner to Cézanne presents an outstanding group of
nineteenth-and twentieth-century paintings and works on paper from the
National Museum Wales. An internationally acclaimed collection of Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist art, the exhibition features masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Edouard
Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent
van Gogh. The exhibition traces the evolution of early modern art, beginning with
examples of dramatic Romanticism exemplified by Turner through the expressionist
Post-impressionism of Van Gogh. Spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
the exhibition contains masterworks of Realism, Naturalism, and Impressionism, by their
greatest exponents. After lunch we will spend the afternoon at the Newseum, a 250,000
square foot interactive museum of news and journalism. Highlights include the largest
display of sections of the Berlin Wall, the largest collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning
photography ever assembled and the newest temporary exhibition of “Meet the Press”
moderator Tim Russert’s old NBC office that has been reassembled and will remain on
display throughout 2010.
Winston-Salem, North CarolinaPlans are underway for a three-day tip to the Winston-Salem area of North
Carolina. Highlights of this excursion include visits to the Museum of Early
Southern Decorative Arts and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. The group
will also tour the Reynolda House, built in 1917, by R. J. Reynolds that offers a superb
collection of furnishings and American art.
MAR 16
APR 8
MAY
GOING GREEN:UPCOMING CHANGE TO THE MEMBERS’ TRIP PROGRAM REGISTRATION PROCESSFor more than twenty years the Members’ Trip Program
has been one of the many benefits of being a Member of
the Muscarelle Museum of Art. In the past, the Museum
has mailed Members’ Trip registration forms to all Museum
Members, but we have now changed this policy to provide
the best traveling experience at an even more reasonable
price. This change will also comply with the ongoing effort
of The College to be environmentally sustainable.
As the cost of printing and postage has risen, in the past
three years there has been an approximate thirty-three
percent increase in the Museum Membership. Large
mailings to all members add significantly to the per-
person price of trips when only a smaller percentage take
advantage of trip offerings are the reason for the change.
To help keep the trip costs down and prevent a lot of
wasted paper in mailboxes, we are asking you to contact
Ursula McLaughlin-Miller, Special Projects Administrator,
at [email protected], to be added to the Travelers List
or return the card enclosed in the mailing for the April
trip. By doing so, you will receive registration letters
with detailed information about our travel opportunities.
Information on current trips is also always available on our
website.
upcoming EXHIBITIONS
Eugene Smith immersed himself in the lives of his
subjects in order to capture intimacy and raise
awareness of social injustice and affect change. Smith’s
work remains one of the foremost links between
photojournalism and photography as a fine art. His
photographs are exquisitely composed. What makes
the viewer initally look at the images is their formal
beauty. Therein lies a tension, as the images are at times
horrific; yet the viewer is drawn to them because their
composition is astute and their execution pristine.
Unbearable Beauty: Triumph of the Human Spirit,
includes many images from the Minamata series. Taken
in the early 1970’s, by Smith and his wife Aileen, many
of these pictures brought global attention to the horrors
of mercury poisoning. In 1932 the Chisso Corporation
spilled mercury into the Minamata Harbor in Japan,
where it entered the marine food chain and the human
diet. Forty years later the world witnessed the effects
of mercury pollution were witnessed in the famous
image, Tomoka outside Bath, of a healthy Japanese
mother bathing the body of her blind and disfigured
daughter. In addition to the exceptionally compelling
social content, Smith’s work possesses extraordinary
aesthetic sensibilities coupled with a meticulous
technical facility. These stunning black-and-white
photographs offer the chance to engage in a dialogue
about environmental issues.
Unbearable Beauty, curated by W&M Professor
Elizabeth Mead, is part of the larger campus-wide
project, Mercury: A Hazard without Borders. This
project crosses several academic boundaries with
faculty from Biology, Sociology, Art, Film Studies, and
History departments. At its heart, the project creates
an interdisciplinary portal to explore environmental
hazards that transcend international boundaries
and instill stewardship and appreciation for the
environment. The topic of mercury, often associated
with chemistry classes, provides an opportunity
to reveal the social, cultural, economic, and policy
implications of science; science is not just contained
within a laboratory, nor are laboratories separate from
society and politics. The focus on mercury pollution
provides a way to promote research projects, courses,
and public events that emphasize the global nature of
mercury hazards and how they touch all disciplines and
everyday life.
The Museum is pleased to host the W. Eugene and
Aileen M. Smith exhibition and contribute to this
College project. The show opens during an international
symposium hosted by The College, April 24 and 25,
2010. There will be numerous activities and lectures
open to the public including hourly docent tours of the
exhibition. Please refer to http://mercury.wm.edu/ for
events as they are posted.
Unbearable Beauty:Triumph of the Human Spirit
“I’ve never made any picture good or bad without paying for it in emotional turmoil.”-W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
ON VIEW AT MUSCARELLE
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POPULAR RELIGIONAnd the Art of Private Devotion in Colonial Mexico
and Peru, Curated by Professor Susan Webster
On View in April
This exhibition focuses on the iconography
and ritual context of objects created for public
and private ritual and devotional practices in
Mexico and Peru. Most of the featured objects
date from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries; however, they represent forms and
practices developed during the colonial period. Organized and co-curated by
W&M students in a class taught by Jane Williams Mahoney Professor of Art
& Art History, Susan Webster, this exhibition is another great example of the
collaboration between academic departments and the Museum, and illustrates
how students can use the Museum as part of their studies. The objects
represented in the exhibition primarily come from the private collections of
John Austin, Curator Emeritus of Ceramics & Glass at Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation.
THE MEDIATED IMAGETechniques of Printmaking, Curated by Students
from The College of William & Mary, under the
guidance of Professor Catherine Levesque
On View February 6 - April 11, 2010
Since its ancient invention printmaking
has remained one of the most popular and
recognizable forms of producing art. From basic
relief printmaking to modern screenprinting,
artists have used numerous techniques all
based on the simple idea of creating multiple
impressions or prints. The Mediated Image: Techniques of Printmaking
explores the grand history of the medium by examining examples drawn from
the permanent collection of the Museum. The exhibition allows a group of
W&M students, under the guidance of Associate Professor of Art & Art History
Catherine Levesque, the opportunity to explore the collection of the Museum,
learn from our knowledgeable staff, and curate the exhibition, all while
furthering the objective of the Museum to serve as a place for experiential
learning and development.
FEB 6
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FROM THE DOCENTS: by Shirley Confino-Rehder
BEYOND SIGHTWhile paintings are not meant to be touched, the Museum has created tactile reproductions
of works so that visitors can have an engaging aesthetic experience. This unique experience
while geared towards those who are blind and persons with low vision can still be experienced
by the entire museum audience. This tactile tour is the first of its kind in the Tidewater
area, and is in partnership with the Bayside Library Special Services, and a number of other
community partners joining in the program to create this unique service to the area, including
the Chrysler Museum, The Contemporary Center of Virginia, The African Art Gallery at
the Harrison B. Wilson Archives, The Baron & Ellen Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion
University, The Norfolk Senior Center, and the Virginia Zoo.
The tactile tour program at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, is a special project for its creator
Ms. Shirley Confino-Rehder. Confino-Rehder started her campaign at the request of her
friend, the late Marion Saunders, a blind advocate and tireless worker for the enrichment
of all people. Confino-Rehder is the Chair of the Norfolk Mayor’s Commission of Persons
with Disabilities, representative on the South Hampton Roads Disability Service Board, a
docent at the Museum, and an award winning professional interior designer and artist. With
the encouragement of the Museum education department and the Bayside Library Special
Services this amazing project was soon underway. Confino-Rehder worked with Dr. Amy
Gorman to develop the graphics needed to create tactile images. In addition many docents
of the Museum and students of The College were involved with the production of images
at the Museum. The Bayside library is providing support with the production of Braille
descriptions and audio tours to compliment the tactile images. The Friends of the Museum
have also pledged support for future production of tactile images. To schedule a tactile tour
of the Museum collection, please contact the education department at [email protected] or
757.221.2703.
FROM THE FRIENDS: by Martha Jean Howell
MUSIC IN THE GALLERYThe aim of Music in the Gallery is to unite the beauty of art and music in the gallery setting,
using the current Museum exhibition as inspiration to find diverse musical talents from the
community. In 2008, Judith Bowers and Martha Jean Howell approached Director DeGroft to
propose Friends sponsor musical programs in the Sheridan Gallery. The performances would
feature Music Department faculty members and student musicians. The first Music in the
Gallery concert was presented on Sunday, February 15, 2009, during the exhibition of The
Dutch Italianates. The Early Music Ensemble under the leadership of Professor Ruth Griffioen
played on baroque instruments: baroque violin, recorder, and viola da gamba.
Throughout the Spring of 2009, the Friends of the Muscarelle Museum of Art have hosted
several performances highlighting a great variety of musical groups, such as; the Christopher
Wren Singers, the Stairwells, the W & M Brass Quintet directed by junior Miriam Foltz. These
artists brought their vibrancy of music, which blended well with the rich colors and designs of
the Tiffany glass exhibition. In the Fall, during the Faculty exhibition, Professor Tim Olbrych
played a selection of classical guitar music. The popular program drew a standing room only
audience. At the November “Holiday Boutique,” Sam Meckle, a senior music major, played a
classical and holiday program and accompanied Ian Arthur, a junior music major, who sang a
selection of Ralph Vaughn-Williams songs. A baby grand piano was loaned to the Museum by
the Piano and Organ Outlet of Williamsburg.
On Sunday, March 21, 2:30 – 3:30 the Early Music Ensemble will again perform. Professor
Griffioen will feature Italian compositions from the renaissance period to highlight the
Michelangelo drawings on exhibition.
Music in the Gallery is achieving a harmony of performance and fine arts!
ongoing PROJECTS
special COLLECTIONS
The Museum is delighted to announce
the establishment of The Vinyard
Collection -- named to honor the
extraordinary, continued support of
Christian Vinyard. Over the years,
Chris has thoughtfully assembled a
collection of renowned prints that he
has generously donated to the Museum.
Through learning about and researching
the Museum, Chris has determinedly
acquired art that would fill significant
gaps in the permanent collection.
The expansion of our print collection
continues our contributions to faculty
and students, giving access to authentic
artifacts for first-hand research. In
addition, to help with our collecting
and preservation mission, Chris has
created the Vinyard Acquisitions and
Conservation Endowment. It is the
kindness and interest of donors like
Chris that greatly enriches the Museum’s
permanent collection and enhances our
mission.
VINYARD COLLECTION GIFTSFROM LEFT TO RIGHT
Samuel Chamberlain(American, 1895-1975)Essex Villagen.d.DrypointGift of Christian Vinyard
Rockwell Kent(American, 1882-1971)Starry Night1933Wood engravingGift of Christian Vinyard
Asa Cheffetz(American, 1896-1965)Down Montgomery Way, Vermont1940Wood engravingGift of Christian Vinyard
THE VINYARD COLLECTION
FY08-
09
PROGRESS REPORT
our STORY
Last year the Board of Directors
reported to you unprecedented
success of the Muscarelle
Museum of Art from 2005 to
2008. This year I am pleased to
announce the Museum has once
again outdone itself. In fiscal
year 2009, membership levels
remained high, attendance has
maintained high, and despite a
regressing economy, financials
were strong. Importantly, this
past year the Museum expanded
its exhibition space into the
William & Mary Sadler Center,
a space that according to
traffic studies has over 9,000
visitors per day. In fiscal year
2009, we hosted the first of
many exhibitions in that space
broadening our ability to reach
students, faculty, staff, and
visitors of The College.
As you read the Progress
Report note the significant
works the Museum acquired
into the collection, world-class
exhibitions hosted, and unique
programs, events, and trips.
Each year we grow stronger due
to the relentless efforts of our
professional staff, supporters,
and Board of Directors. Thank
you once again for your
generous contributions to
the growth of the Muscarelle
Museum of Art. We could not do
it without you.
Ray C. Stoner, Interim Chair
Board of Directors
DONORS
FINANCIALDISTRIBUTION
Financial support remained strong this year. The College
remained the largest supporter of the Museum, and private
support including membership remained steady. To maintain
a steady level of contributions in these difficult times is a
testament to the belief our members and donors have in
supporting our mission through their financial commitment. In
collaboration with the College effort, the Museum, instituted a
number of “green” initiatives, including reducing printing and
mailing costs.
ATTENDANCE
Our exhibitions have been well received as is evident with our
attendance. We also opened our door to quite a few events in
the community and The College, including a few stellar events
of our own, like Dancing with the Starfish, an appropriately
themed homecoming party in conjunction with the exhibitions
Celestial Images and Beyond the Edge. The Music in the Galleries
program hosted by the friends of the Museum has been gaining
in popularity. As always our dedicated docents, continue to draw
crowds for in-depth views of the exhibitions. Most importantly,
our service to the students has risen this year. We were able
to serve students from many disciplines, by inviting faculty to
incorporate our collections and current exhibitions into their
classes.
EVENT ATTENDANCE
TOTAL ATTENDANCE
The exhibitions at the Muscarelle continue to surpass the
amazing shows we have staged in past years and this year
was no exception. We began the 2008 academic year with
a ground breaking exhibition, Beyond the Edge of the Sea:
Diversity of Life in the Deep Ocean Wilderness, which showed
captivating illustrations from miles below the surface of the
ocean. This was followed ambitiously by The Dutch Italianates:
Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture
Gallery, an impressive exhibition of master works rarely seen
outside of Europe. The Museum also participated in The Art of
Glass 2, a program organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art
and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in conjunction
with the Virginia Arts Festival, through the examination of
works of the legend Louis Comfort Tiffany in the exhibition
Tiffany Glass: “A Riot of Color.”
Tiffany Glass: “A Riot of Color”April 18 – July 12, 2009
Picturing Paradise Cuadrosby the Peruvian Women of Pamplona - Alta as Visions of HopeApril 6 – May 17, 2009
Developing World Gallery: International Relations Club Photography ExhibitionApril 8 – April 19, 2009
The New Outcasts / Los Nuevos Olvidados:Photographs by Octavio Kano-GalvánMarch 2 - April 1, 2009
The Century ProjectMarch 16 – March 20, 2009
Assignment Middle East and Africa:Selected Work from Photojournalist Paul TaggartFebruary 4 - March 1, 2009
The Dutch Italianates:Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture GalleryNovember 13, 2008 - March 22, 2009
Highlights from the George W. Roper, II CollectionOctober 24, 2008 - January 31, 2009
Diving with a Camera: Photographs by Dennis LibersonSeptember 5 - April 8, 2008
Beyond the Edge of the Sea:Diversity of Life in the Deep-Ocean WildernessSeptember 5 - November 2, 2008
Celestial Images:Antiquarian Astrological Prints from the Mendillo CollectionSeptember 5 - November 2, 2008
EXHIBITIONS
Ongoing Loans to the Museum
Anonymous Parent of W&M Student (2010)
Thomas D. Dossett and Associates
Frauken Grohs Collinson – Grohs Collinson Trust
Collection of Francesco and Oletta Lauro
The Owens Foundation
John T. and Michèle K. Spike
Incoming Loans for ExhibitionsOrganized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art
Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Diversity of Life in the
Deep-Ocean Wilderness
September 5 – November 2, 2008
Lenders: Karen Jacobsen and Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover
Tiffany Glass: “A Riot of Color”
April 18 – July 12, 2009
Lenders: Chrysler Museum of Art, Julian W. Fore, Sydney and Frances
Lewis Collection, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art,
The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, The John and Mable Ringling
Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Highlights from the George W. Roper, II Collection
October 24, 2008 – January 31, 2009
Lender: George W. Roper, II
The impressive exhibitions list is due in part to the
great relationships we have built with kind lenders and
other institutions. We are fortunate to have notable
works of art, from Titian to Thomas Cole, loaned to
us by generous individuals, who have entrusted their
works of art to the Museum, so that we may share
these treasures with our visitors.
In addition to great support from individuals we
had many opportunities over this last year to
borrow from incredible collections, both nationally
and internationally renowned. To work with these
institutions has been rewarding for the staff, but to
bring the great diversity of artworks we have seen
in the past year is a true service to our visitors. The
College faculty especially has been instrumental this
year, in bringing many collections and exhibitions
to the Museum. We are thankful to everyone listed
who continue to support the museum through their
generous ongoing loans to the Museum, and the
institutions who have loaned to us throughout the
past year, to make our exhibitions truly stellar.
LOANS
Over the last year the Muscarelle has been fortunate enough
to acquire over 200 works to add to the collection. These
acquisitions spread across many mediums and time periods to
help add depth to a world class collection of more than 4000
works. This year the Museum was able to acquire a print dated to
1677 that provides insight into the origins of the insignia of The
College of William & Mary -- this has fueled study from many of
our students! We also received two impressive drawings from
the American artist Arthur B. Davies who was instrumental in
organizing the infamous Armory Show of 1913 and is considered
one of the preeminent artists of the Ash Can School. The Museum
was also honored to be a recipient of original photographs
from famed pop artist Andy Warhol as part of The Andy Warhol
Photographic Legacy Program, which was previewed in our
recent exhibition Deeply Superficial. A full list of new acquisitions
is available in our electronic progress report at www.wm.edu/
muscarelle/annualreport
Richard S. Buswell
Mr. and Mrs. Nash Castro
Andrey Fedorov
Julian Fore Endowment
Audrey and Ralph Friedner
Georgiana Kornwolf
Ralph and Doris Piper Lamberson Memorial Endowment Fund
David Libertson
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Libertson
John T. and Michèle K. Spike
Christian Vinyard
Vinyard Acquisitions and Conservation Funds
Mr. Winfred O. Ward, W&M ‘54
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
William & Mary Arts Collaborative (WaMAC)
Mary Gilman Woodson in memory of her mother, Mrs. David W. Woodson
(Mary “Tom” Gilman Woodson)
ACQUISITIONSIncoming Loans from Exhibitions Organized by Departments at The College of William & Mary
Picturing Paradise: Cuadros by the Peruvian Women of Pamplona –
Alta as Visions of Hope
April 3 – May 17, 2009
Lenders: Compacto Humano and Manos Anchashinas (women from two
cooperatives located in Pamplona Alta, outside of Lima, Peru); curated by
Rebecca Berru Davis, this exhibition was co-sponsored by the Muscarelle
Museum of Art, Women’s Studies Program, the American Studies Program,
and the Department of Art and Art History
The New Outcasts/Los Nuevos Olvidados: Photographs by Octavio-
Kano-Galván
March 3 – April 1, 2009
Lender: Octavio-Kano-Galván; this exhibition was co-sponsored by the
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Latin American Studies (Global Studies),
Hispanic Studies (Modern Languages and Literatures), the Mid-Atlantic
Council of Latin American Studies and the Reves Center for International
Studies
The Century Project
March 16 – March 20, 2009
Lender: Frank Cordelle; organized by the Student Assembly with the help
of Grace Sherman
Assignment Middle East and Africa: Selected Work from
Photojournalist Paul Taggart
February 4 – March 1, 2009
Lender: Paul Taggart; this exhibition was co-sponsored by the Muscarelle
Museum of Art and the College of William & Mary Alma Mater Productions
(AMP) cultural and contemporary events program
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